SinisterCrimes

On this day

11 November

  1. 1859

    Brynhild Paulsdatter Størset is born in Selbu, Norway.

    Belle Gunness Never caught

    When her Indiana farmhouse burned in 1908, searchers found a dozen people buried on her land. Belle Gunness was declared dead. Many doubted it.

  2. 1880

    Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.

    Ned Kelly Executed

    Three police dead at Stringybark Creek, two bank raids and a last stand in plough-iron armour: how the Kelly outbreak ended on a Melbourne gallows.

  3. 1924

    Glasscock, Joe and Jess Newton and Herbert Holliday change their pleas to guilty in federal court in Chicago.

    Rondout train robbery Convicted

    June 1924: the Newton brothers stop a mail train north of Chicago and take some $2 million, America's biggest train robbery. A postal inspector planned it.